When Crunch Fitness took over the Bally's Total Fitness gym location in Newport News, Mickey Marcella, of Newport News, wanted a refund on his contract since the new owners removed the swimming pool and sauna facilities.

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The Peninsula Town Center in Hampton is offering free valet parking Thursdays through Sundays. It’s available on Merchant Lane at Mary’s Park and Town Square from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sundays.

When Sandra Gardner decided to launch her own craft show four years ago, she promised that it would be big. She promised that it would grow. Her shopping extravaganza, she said, would rival the biggest shows around.

A Civil War-period coat worn by a nurse — a woman from a prominent Mathews County family who some believe was the only woman to be commissioned as a captain in the Confederate Army — is among the nominees for Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program.